Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unwilling to grant any compliments to the present government, Conservatives maintain that all effective control, rationing, and price measures now in effect were started by the wartime coalition cabinet...
...required and so was excellence at swimming, riding and tennis. Father didn't ask the impossible, but he expected all of his children to be in the first ten in their classes at Packer Collegiate Institute. When Gulielma was too ill to do homework, she was told to maintain her standing by memorizing what went on in class. Father did not permit his womenfolk to wear corsets, because he held that the body, as well as the mind, should remain uncramped...
...asked the police to maintain order," he said, "but they say they'll only intervene if there is trouble. And if we organized the guards, they would accuse us of using fascist methods. The guards are a political luxury that only the Communists and left-bloc parties can afford...
Islam does not maintain that its prophet, Mohamed, was divine; it does not deny Jesus (Issa), but calls Him the divinely sent redeemer rather than the Son of God. It permits limited polygamy,* strictly enforces prohibition, but believes in a paradise full of rich, non-intoxicating wines...
...also can, and should, help within the limits of our capacity those who wish to help themselves. . . . This country has always responded to people struggling to attain or maintain their freedom. We have done so because it is important to us that they shall succeed...